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Linear Equation Word Problems - Examples & Practice

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Miranda is throwing a murder mystery party. She wants to buy crime scene tape to string around the room. The crime scene tape costs $\$0.80$ per foot.

If her room is perfectly square and she only wants to string the tape horizontally across each side of the room once, write a function for the cost of decorating her room with crime scene tape. Let $x$ represent the length of her room in feet, and express the cost in dollars.